Death Ship – Canada/UK, 1980

Death Ship is a 1980 Canadian-British horror film directed by Alvin Rakoff from a screenplay by John Robins. It stars George Kennedy, Richard Crenna (The Evil), Sally Ann Howes, and Nick Mancuso (Black Christmas).

Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching – on a collision course! Despite the attempts of the crew to avert disaster, the liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven survivors.

They are saved when they clamber aboard a ghostly freighter, where they discover an even worse fate. They are now prisoners on a former wartime vessel. As this ship speeds towards an unknown destination, they realise that something is intent on destroying each one of them in a gruesome and terrifying way…

Death Ship was released newly remastered in 2K on Blu-ray on December 11, 2018, by Scorpion Releasing, in conjunction with Kino Lorber. Special features:

” …Death Ship is the kind of movie people stumble upon late at night on TV and spend years trying to track down again. You’ve got all the ingredients here for a pulpy good time: a semi-celebrity cast; a supernatural high concept; a reasonable body count; and of course, an evil Nazi-spawned killer ship roaming the seas. How can you possibly resist.” Nathaniel Thompson, Mondo Digital

“Death Ship feels more like a made-for-TV movie than a big screen movie, and if not for the particularly captivating shower scene, it probably could have been. But even so, this movie is filled with great moments of creepiness that are really well executed. It also does well with creating an imposing sense of isolation. ” Todd Jordan, Rock! Shock! Pop!

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